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Book Earthquake Induced Structural Pounding

Download or read book Earthquake Induced Structural Pounding written by Robert Jankowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books analyzes different approaches to modeling earthquake-induced structural pounding and shows the results of the studies on collisions between buildings and between bridge segments during ground motions. Aspects related to the mitigation of pounding effects as well as the design of structures prone to pounding are also discussed. Earthquake-induced structural pounding between insufficiently separated buildings, and between bridge segments, has been repeatedly observed during ground motions. The reports after earthquakes indicate that it may result in limited local damage in the case of moderate seismic events, or in considerable destruction or even the collapse of colliding structures during severe ground motions. Pounding in buildings is usually caused by the differences in dynamic properties between structures, which make them vibrate out-of-phase under seismic excitation. In contrast, in the case of longer bridge structures, it is more often the seismic wave propagation effect that induces collisions between superstructure segments during earthquakes.

Book Earthquake Induced Structural Pounding

Download or read book Earthquake Induced Structural Pounding written by Robert Jankowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books analyzes different approaches to modeling earthquake-induced structural pounding and shows the results of the studies on collisions between buildings and between bridge segments during ground motions. Aspects related to the mitigation of pounding effects as well as the design of structures prone to pounding are also discussed. Earthquake-induced structural pounding between insufficiently separated buildings, and between bridge segments, has been repeatedly observed during ground motions. The reports after earthquakes indicate that it may result in limited local damage in the case of moderate seismic events, or in considerable destruction or even the collapse of colliding structures during severe ground motions. Pounding in buildings is usually caused by the differences in dynamic properties between structures, which make them vibrate out-of-phase under seismic excitation. In contrast, in the case of longer bridge structures, it is more often the seismic wave propagation effect that induces collisions between superstructure segments during earthquakes.

Book Sustainability Trends and Challenges in Civil Engineering

Download or read book Sustainability Trends and Challenges in Civil Engineering written by Lakshman Nandagiri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Civil Engineering Trends and Challenges for Sustainability (CTCS 2020). The chapters discuss emerging and latest research and advances in sustainability in different areas of civil engineering, which aim to provide solutions to sustainable development. The contents are broadly divided into the following categories: construction technology and building materials, structural engineering, transportation and geotechnical engineering, environmental and water resources engineering, and RS-GIS applications. This book will be of potential interest to beginners, researchers, and professionals working in the area of sustainable civil engineering and related fields.

Book Earthquake Resistant Buildings

Download or read book Earthquake Resistant Buildings written by M.Y.H. Bangash and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise work provides a general introduction to the design of buildings which must be resistant to the effect of earthquakes. A major part of this design involves the building structure which has a primary role in preventing serious damage or structural collapse. Much of the material presented in this book examines building structures. Due to the recent discovery of vertical components, it examines not only the resistance to lateral forces but also analyses the disastrous influence of vertical components. The work is written for Practicing Civil, Structural, and Mechanical Engineers, Seismologists and Geoscientists. It serves as a knowledge source for graduate students and their instructors.

Book Basic Earthquake Engineering

Download or read book Basic Earthquake Engineering written by Halûk Sucuoğlu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in their professional lives. The basics of seismotectonics, including the causes, magnitude, and intensity of earthquakes, are first explained. Then the book introduces basic elements of seismic hazard analysis and presents the concept of a seismic hazard map for use in seismic design. Subsequent chapters cover key aspects of the response analysis of simple systems and building structures to earthquake ground motions, design spectrum, the adoption of seismic analysis procedures in seismic design codes, seismic design principles and seismic design of reinforced concrete structures. Helpful worked examples on seismic analysis of linear, nonlinear and base isolated buildings, earthquake-resistant design of frame and frame-shear wall systems are included, most of which can be solved using a hand calculator.

Book Advances in Construction Materials and Sustainable Environment

Download or read book Advances in Construction Materials and Sustainable Environment written by Ashok Kumar Gupta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Construction Materials and Environment (ICCME 2020). The topics discussed revolve around the identification and utilization of novel construction materials primarily in the areas of structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, and environmental engineering. The volume presents a compilation of thoroughly studied and utilized sustainable construction materials in different areas of civil engineering. Newly developed testing methodologies, physical modelling methods, numerical studies, and other latest techniques discussed in this book can prove to be useful for researchers and practitioners across the globe.

Book CONTROLO 2020

Download or read book CONTROLO 2020 written by José Alexandre Gonçalves and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a timely and comprehensive snapshot of research and developments in the field of control engineering. Covering a wide range of theoretical and practical issues, the contributions describes a number of different control approaches, such adaptive control, fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy control, remote and robust control systems, real time an fault tolerant control, among others. Sensors and actuators, measurement systems, renewable energy systems, aerospace systems as well as industrial control and automation, are also comprehensively covered. Based on the proceedings of the 14th APCA International Conference on Automatic Control and Soft Computing, held on July 1-3, 2020, in Bragança, Portugal, the book offers a timely and thoroughly survey of the latest research in the field of control, and a source of inspiration for researchers and professionals worldwide.

Book Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards  Supporting Documentation

Download or read book Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards Supporting Documentation written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) handbook can be used by trained personnel to identify, inventory, and screen buildings that are potentially seismically vulnerable. The RVS procedure comprises a method and several forms that help users to quickly identify, inventory, and score buildings according to their risk of collapse if hit by major earthquakes. The RVS handbook describes how to identify the structural type and key weakness characteristics, how to complete the screening forms, and how to manage a successful RVS program.

Book Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake

Download or read book Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco area on October 17, 1989, causing 63 deaths and $10 billion worth of damage. This book reviews existing research on the Loma Prieta quake and draws from it practical lessons that could be applied to other earthquake-prone areas of the country. The volume contains seven keynote papers presented at a symposium on the earthquake and includes an overview written by the committee offering recommendations to improve seismic safety and earthquake awareness in parts of the country susceptible to earthquakes.

Book Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures III

Download or read book Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures III written by Dietlinde Köber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge on problems of the effects of structural irregularities on their seismic response. It also covers specific spatial and rotational seismic loads on these structures. Rapid progress in respective research on irregular structures and unconventional seismic loads requires prompt updates of the state of the art in this area. These problems are of particular interest to both researchers and practitioners because these are non-conservative effects compared with the approach of the traditional seismic design (e.g. Eurocode 8, Uniform Building Code etc.). This book will be of particular interest to researchers, PhD students and engineers dealing with design of structures under seismic excitations.

Book Guidelines for Earthquake Resistant Non engineered Construction

Download or read book Guidelines for Earthquake Resistant Non engineered Construction written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures III

Download or read book Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures III written by Dietlinde Köber and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge on problems of the effects of structural irregularities on their seismic response. It also covers specific spatial and rotational seismic loads on these structures. Rapid progress in respective research on irregular structures and unconventional seismic loads requires prompt updates of the state of the art in this area. These problems are of particular interest to both researchers and practitioners because these are non-conservative effects compared with the approach of the traditional seismic design (e.g. Eurocode 8, Uniform Building Code etc.). This book will be of particular interest to researchers, PhD students and engineers dealing with design of structures under seismic excitations.

Book Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures II

Download or read book Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures II written by Zbigniew Zembaty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irregular engineering structures are subjected to complicated additional loads which are often beyond conventional design models developed for traditional, simplified plane models. This book covers detailed research and recent progress in seismic engineering dealing with seismic behaviour of irregular and set-back engineering structures. Experimental results as well as special topics of modern design are discussed in detail. In addition, recent progress in seismology, wave propagation and seismic engineering, which provides novel, modern modelling of complex seismic loads, is reported. Particular emphasis is placed on the newly developed rotational, seismic ground-motion effects. This book is a continuation of an earlier monograph which appeared in the same Springer series in 2013 (http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789400753761).

Book Vulnerability and Risk Analyzes of Structures Subjected to Earthquake induced Building Pounding with a Non smooth Contact Dynamics Method

Download or read book Vulnerability and Risk Analyzes of Structures Subjected to Earthquake induced Building Pounding with a Non smooth Contact Dynamics Method written by Thomas Langlade and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquake-induced building pounding is a solicitation whose consequences are difficult to quantify, both experimentally and numerically, due to a large number of parameters involved and the multiple possible configurations (non-exhaustive, modal behavior of structures, location of impact, elastic or inelastic behavior, separation distance, etc.). An important part of the literature and engineering methods focuses on the parameterization of Kelvin-Voigt type contact-impact models. Although giving satisfactory results, these models use two to three parameters whose calibration is subject to discussion. Moreover, the concept of risk analysis based on structural performance has been developed in this framework of clash only in the 2000s. The objective of the present work is to link and contribute these two aspects, the treatment of contact and the associated risk analysis. To the best of the author's knowledge, the use of the NSCD (Non-Smooth Contact Dynamics) method is rare in the field of civil engineering, more specifically in inter-building clashing. This approach is numerically unconditionally stable (so large time steps can be chosen) and uses only one scalar parameter called restitution coefficient, representing the energy loss of the system during contact. An experimental/numerical comparison allows validating the use of the NSCD in the following framework: two adjacent structures, elastic, of the same height whose respective slabs can come into contact. Still in this framework, the NSCD is then used to study the efficiency and sufficiency of intensity indicators, parameters inherent to any seismic risk analysis. The indicator with the best predictive capabilities and independence is selected. It is then used in incremental (IDA) and spectral (CSS) hazard analyses to observe the effects of pounding, either beneficial or detrimental depending on the structural parameter observed, on linear and non-linear structures.

Book International Efforts in Lifeline Earthquake Engineering

Download or read book International Efforts in Lifeline Earthquake Engineering written by Craig A. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TCLEE 38 contains 86 peer-reviewed papers covering recent developments in lifeline earthquake engineering presented at the Sixth China-Japan-U.S. Trilateral Symposium on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, held in Chengdu, China, May 28-June 1, 2013.

Book Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures

Download or read book Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures written by Oren Lavan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structural irregularities are one of the most frequent causes of severe damages in buildings, as evidenced by the numerous earthquakes in recent years. This issue is of particular importance, since real structures are almost all irregular. Furthermore, structural irregularities depend on several factors often very difficult to predict. This book is an essential tool for understanding the problem of structural irregularities and provides the most up-to-date review on this topic, covering the aspects of ground rotations, analysis, design, control and monitoring of irregular structures. It includes 24 contributions from authors of 13 countries, giving a complete and international view of the problem.

Book Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design

Download or read book Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design written by Victor Gioncu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in Earthquake Engineering have focussed on the capacity and response of structures. They often overlook the importance of seismological knowledge to earthquake-proofing of design. It is not enough only to understand the anatomy of the structure, you must also appreciate the nature of the likely earthquake. Seismic design, as detailed in this book, is the bringing together of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology. It focuses on the seismological aspects of design – analyzing various types of earthquake and how they affect structures differently. Understanding the distinction between these earthquake types and their different impacts on buildings can make the difference between whether a building stands or falls, or at least to how much it costs to repair. Covering the basis and basics of the major international codes, this is the essential guide for professionals working on structures in earthquake zones around the world.